[Air-L] Fwd: [IAMCR] PhD summer school on the political economy of ICT

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> From: Anders henten <henten at cmi.aau.dk>
> Date: February 8, 2010 6:32:05 AM EST
> To: announcements at iamcr.org
> Subject: [IAMCR] PhD summer school on the political economy of ICT
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> Announcement of PhD summer school on
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> The Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies
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> Dates: 22-27 August 2010
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> Place: Skagen, Denmark
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> Organizer: Center for Communication, Media and Information technologies
> (CMI), Aalborg University, Denmark
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> Information and registration:  <http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/>
> http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/ 
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> The topic of the 2010 PhD summer school is Social Networking
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> The PhD summer school on the political economy information and communication
> technologies focuses on social networking in 2010. Internet-based
> communities have existed for more than 20 years, but during the past few
> years, social networking has become widespread. Worldwide, people connect
> via the web and extend their social communities beyond what could ever have
> been realized without the web. 
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> Till now, users of web-based social networking and communities have mainly
> used traditional computers with large screens. For many users the concept of
> social networking means always-on, which sets focus on the trend of being
> able to do social networking also on smart phones and other smaller screens.
> The transition from the big screen to the small screen in relation to social
> networking and communities will be one of the issues examined at the PhD
> summer school. The summer school will concentrate on the interrelationships
> between the technological, economic, political, and cultural aspects of
> social networking.
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> Issues that will be dealt with at the summer school include: 
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> .         User generated content and applications
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> .         Mobility and social networks 
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> .         Privacy and trust in social networks
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> .         Standards and technical platforms 
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> .         New services and applications for mobile devices facilitating
> social networks
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> .         Business models for social networks
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> .         Regulatory aspects of social networks
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> The summer school is organized in cooperation with CTIF (Centre for
> TeleInFrastructure), the CAMMP project (Converged Advanced Mobile Media
> Platform), and is part of the activities of the Mobile and Wireless Cluster
> (KMT) located at CMI.
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> Aim and objectives of the summer school
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> The aim of the course is to refine the level of knowledge of the
> participating Ph.D. students on the economic and political structures and
> mechanisms affecting technology development in the information and
> communication technology (ICT) area. It also considers the impact of
> implementation and application of ICTs on the economy and broader social
> developments. It is a course in the political economy of technology
> development with a disciplinary point of departure in economics and social
> science. This theme is explored at a company (micro), sectoral (meso) and/or
> societal (macro) level. This will depend on the specific topics chosen in
> the course. The course targets Ph.D. students with a technology background
> combined with an economics and/or social science approach and students with
> an economics and /or social science background focusing on technology
> development.
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> Best regards
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> Anders Henten, henten at cmi.aau.dk
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> Reza Tadayoni,  <mailto:reza at cmi.aau.dk> reza at cmi.aau.dk 
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> CMI, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
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